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Lyn Julius

Lyn Julius is the author of “Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight” (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018).

All avenues leading to restitution of Jewish property seized in Arab countries are closed.
The path to true reconciliation surely lies in a balanced view of history, where Jewish victims of Arab anti-Semitism are allowed to tell their stories, and Arab states are called to account for their own actions.
The recent death of the “last Jewish doctor” in Iraq highlights the near-extinction of the oldest Jewish Diaspora in the world.
As a new era dawns between Morocco and Israel, let honesty and transparency prevail.
Amid the euphoria of the Abraham Accords, the dispossessed Jews of Sudan appear to have been overlooked. This must be rectified.
This hugely euphemistic term describes an ongoing process that has included massacres, discrimination and national homogenization following the dissolution of empires.
The return of the archives to Iraq has raised fears among U.S. Jewish groups regarding the future of thousands of Jewish documents, books and Torah scrolls seized by Saddam’s henchmen in the 1980s.
Universities already ignore, or distort, Mizrahi-lived experience, unless Mizrahi Jews can be weaponized against Zionist Ashkenazim. Now they are in danger of being erased from school curricula.
In their new book “The War of Return,” authors ex-Knesset member Einat Wilf and journalist Adi Schwartz show how the West, whether by accident or by design, has fed this fantasy over the decades.
French psychoanalyst, philosopher and author Daniel Sibony is to be commended for boldly swimming against a tide of denial and distortion regarding Jewish-Muslim relations.
Whatever its shortcomings, the “Peace to Prosperity” proposal has attempted to tackle the refugee elephant in the room, and for that alone deserves praise.
Arab countries with few or no remaining Jews turning a few Jewish heritage sites into perfunctory tourist stops aren’t exhibiting pluralism.